Martin R. Delany
Subtitle: A Documentary Reader
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780807827635
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Human rights; Nationalism; Other prose: 19th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Archives; African American social reformers; United States - 19th Century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; History: American; USA; Delany, Martin Robison,; American - African American; American - African American & Black; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Delany, Martin Robison; Social Science / African-American Studies; African American political activists; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; 1812-1885; African American political act; African Americans
First sentence: ON 29 JULY 1831, Martin Delany, in search of education and economic opportunities, left his family in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and walked the winding 150-mile route through the alleghenies to Pittsburgh.